Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering in Civil Engineering: Focal Area in Transportation Engineering
Part Time
The Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering in Civil Engineering: Focal Area in Transportation Engineering comprises an in-depth study in preparation for a master’s programme or a broadened study involving more than one engineering discipline.
The Civil Engineering department has a special focus on the areas of hydraulic and environmental engineering, transportation engineering, pavement engineering, structural engineering, reliability analysis, construction engineering and management, and civil engineering informatics. The Department has at its disposal well-equipped laboratories for research in all fields of specialisation.
Note: If you want to enrol part time, you must obtain approval from the departmental chairperson of your prospective home department. To get this approval, you must show that you will be a bona fide part-time student. Follow your prospective home department’s procedures for submitting your application to study part time.
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Please note that selection for postgraduate programmes is highly competitive. Meeting the minimum admission requirements does not guarantee admission to the programme.
Minimum admission requirements
To be considered for admission to a PGDip (Eng) programme, you must:
• hold at least an approved BTech, BEng or BSc degree from a South African university or university of technology; or
• hold other academic degree qualifications and appropriate experience that have been approved by the Faculty Board. The relevant department’s chairperson must make a recommendation regarding such qualification and experience to the Faculty Board.
Selection
Irrespective of the admission requirements above, you must be selected for the PGDip programme by the home department of the relevant field of study.
Note: The PGDip (Eng) does not lead to registration as a professional engineer.
Supporting application documents
Departmental form
Download and fill in the following departmental form, and submit with your application:
https://files.su.ac.za/public/department-civil-engineering/documents/20…
Document placeholder name on application portal:
Dept-PGDip(Eng)(Civil Eng) Transportation Eng - Part Time
Programme structure
• Depending on the composition of a PGDip (Eng), it may be presented in semester, self-study or block courses.
• The programme must include at least 120 credits on NQF level 8 (modules with a 7xx number).
• The chairperson of the home department may prescribe that you to undertake preparatory and/or supplementary study.
• As a student in a PGDip programme, you may normally not register for modules on NQF level 9 (i.e. modules with an 8xx module number).